Read between the lines of corporate-speak. ED's in their dead game collection there with F1 Manager and Realms of Ruin. So they'll probably keep the ARX store up, but their development focus will be their management games. I don't know why they're still gambling on new management IPs when they're not in a position to gamble, but then I've never worked at a company that keeps losing 20% of its value per week.
TBH ED has been on low priority and finally in their 'dead' game collection since very long, even before Odyssey, including the 'bridging the gap' times where dev resources obviously were distributed to other projects, but IIRC way before that even while the company itself grew and grew, up to 800 employees in the end. Still, it prevails which I didn't take for granted when Braben stepped down, and they shipped an IMHO unexpectedly large amount of new content this year, including the Titans, Spires and so on. Given the IP-costly other titles in this group FD apparently set all their hopes on, namely F1 Manager and now RoR, their new flagship product as I got it, being in that group is remarkable in itself. In times of 'restructuring', layoffs, cost-cutting and such I would have expected them to close down this odd product first, but obviously they didn't. While I don't expect much for the future, that's good news for me. YMMV.
The downhill phase for both ED and FD started in May 2021 after the horrible launch of Odyssey which should have been given another year in hindsight. Expectations were high enough, with player numbers peaking at 21k concurrent and AFAIK being the highest ever. They just were not met, and oddly, stock prices and Steam charts are roughly interchangeable since then.
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